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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hi-Fi Rush.

I was so distraught when the studio was closed despite selling extremely well and working on a sequel. I am beyond excited now that the studio has been picked up by ~~Zenimax~~ Krafton. There's no confirmation, but you don't go from planning a sequel to a breakout hit, to being closed down, to being picked up by another parent company just to scrap said sequel.

EDIT: Fixed the company buy-up. Forgot the order of things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The things I care about have been getting stripped away every game, and they're selling more copies than ever. I suspect the next mainline game will be the first time since the Gold/Silver remakes that I actively choose to not buy a mainline Pokemon game.

Legends, on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't always find time to proofread when I am sitting on the toilet, trying to finish my thought and get back to my life. Nor do I concern myself with my old posts enough to go backwards over them later.

When I see them, I fix them, but the time and energy necessary to correctly proofread my posts just... Isn't worth it. We misspeak in real life all the time. We correct ourselves when we can and move on when we can't. It just isn't a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Theology is not a belief in God. It is a study of the belief in God, the connection between humankind and the possibility of God, and the philosophies grounded in religious doctrine. Saying that trying to understand theology is a waste of time is the same as saying that trying to understand any social science is a waste of time.

You may dismiss the beliefs as "all made up", but their impact on our world is very real. Is studying politics a waste of time because it's "all made up"? Or are the arbitrary thoughts and feelings on how the world should be run suddenly more important because we've removed a belief that you personally disagree with?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Your ignorance on the topic of religion is what is astounding here. Reducing religion to "the supernatural" is to ignore centuries of philosophy and social theory.

While widely practiced religion, particularly in the Western world, has been disgustingly reduced to nothing more than a series of corporate institutions vying for social and financial power, this does not represent "religion" as a field.

People seek an understanding of the universe, and an answer to all the existential questions they have. Many people suffer existential dread as a result of their powerlessness in the face of the unknown. Seeking answers through religion is one way to quell such concerns and fears. Whether or not you agree with it, it has provided comfort to millions of people who suffer very natural, human fears.

People also want to know what it means to be "good" and live a "good life." Religion has provided a number of philosophical frameworks in which to seek such answers. If you wish to dismiss all religion out of hand, you're fundamentally discarding much of the basis for modern philosophy as well. You're basically left with consequentialism, which has a number of serious pitfalls.

Religion is a lot more than the belief in God.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A freely accessible collection of human knowledge? Of course authoritarians hate it. An informed populace is their enemy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (13 children)

The answer to this is going to differ heavily from religion to religion. You've already been inundated with the atheist and agnostic response. Christian theology could give you a few different answers.

The Bible could been seen as man's interpretation of God, therefore God's will is placed in terms we understand: emotions. Calling God jealous, angry, sorrowful, or joyful is a lot easier than asking you to understand a four-dimensional physical space. The latter is beyond your perception, much like understanding the "feelings" God exhibits, so it is simplified to terms you can understand.

The second potential answer would be: why wouldn't he/she be? You've made the assumption that emotions are bad or wrong, but if you throw out that assumption, there's nothing wrong with an emotional God. Maybe being "beyond that" is in fact a mistake? If he/she made us in his/her image, then of course we are given emotions similiar to God. Ultimately, who are you or I to judge whether such feelings are good or bad, or make a being imperfect?

Admittedly, I am deeply agnostic myself, because I ultimately don't buy any of the explanations I've provided here. But I've taken time and energy to understand Western theology, rather than dismiss it out of hand, and these are the explanations I suspect you are likliest to find.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

By design, the bots have to be where the people are. If the only people left on Twitter are already indoctrinated, it doesn't help their cause to be over there. That place will spread disinformation all on its own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Problem is, I own most of the games on the Steam front page, so finding new and interesting games is getting difficult.

This. I feel totally underwhelmed by the sale this year because everything on the front page I already either own or have no interest in. I know the discovery queue exists, but it primarily tries to feed me the same jank I already know exists.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Hot take: the difference between 17 and 18 doesn't actually matter, and the real problem is Matt Gaetz abused his position of power to coerce young, relatively powerless women into sex with him. Crossing the line of 17 vs 18 is so unimportant in this particular case. Matt Gaetz fights to maintain a system where young women have no power, and utilizes his socio-economic position in that system to sexually abuse those women. Whether she's just finishing up high school, or in her first year of university, we're still talking about a young women who feels like she needs that money to step forward in her life, and Matt Gaetz, and many others like him, are responsible for creating that need. To then use that need to get sexual gratification from those same young women is fucking disgusting, whether or not she's crossed the socially dictated line of "adulthood."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Even this misses the point, imo. It's not about lording over people. It's about creating and maintaining a system that lets them pick and choose who sits behind bars, who loses access to their finances, who is allowed to vote, and ultimately who has the power.

The rules exist to allow them to target anyone they want. The fact that they simply ignore them when they break them is not the end goal; it's hust a small part of the system of oligarchic control.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Ah yes, an excellent rebuttal, more elitism.

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